Religious Trauma

Religious Trauma Syndrome is a medical disorder characterized by symptoms similar to depression, anxiety, and AVPD. Religious Trauma is caused by bad experiences with toxic and controlling religions and (especially) religious people.

With the steady but noticeable decline of religion around the world, in addition to poor mental health in atheists and teens/young adults, Religious Trauma has begun to gain traction and is slowly being taken more seriously, although it's still seldom brought up and has yet to be officially recognized.

People with Religious Trauma usually become "angry atheists" - people who are absolutely opposed to all forms of religion and extremely hostile towards religious people.

Religious Trauma is a very serious disorder that does not get enough attention.

by Ubeenbamboozledson May 15, 2024

Religious Pluralism

Unlike what most dumbasses will tell you, religious pluralism is not the idea that ever religion is correct, but instead the idea that anyone can attain spiritual enlightenment no matter what religion they were raised to believe

(Average televangelist who probably only does it for the money): Religious pluralism can’t be true! Islam and Christianity believe two different things about Jesus, therefore I have the right to force my fundamentalist religious zeal on others!
Blake (very cool guy): Bro stfu

by Urbandefiner1888 February 20, 2022

Religious Power Evolution Theory

A historical model tracing how humanity's ultimate authority figure has evolved: from Polytheistic gods (multiple, chaotic, like Greek myths), to Monotheistic God (one, absolute, providing universal order, like in Christianity/Islam), to the modern "gods" of Science & Atheism (where logic, data, and human reason are the new sources of dogma). Jiang argues each stage centralizes more abstract and powerful control over human thought and morality. The current "Age of Science" is just another religion with its own priesthood (academics), heretics (climate deniers), and promise of salvation (technological utopia).

Example: "Religious Power Evolution Theory says wokeism is the new monotheism: there's one original sin (oppression), a clear devil (the racist/sexist), a path to salvation (allyship), and an inquisition (cancel culture). It's not science; it's theology with a sociology degree."

by Abzugal January 24, 2026

Religious Posthumanism

A branch that engages with religious traditions—Christianity, Islam, Judaism, Hinduism, Buddhism—to explore posthuman possibilities. Religious posthumanism argues that religions have always been posthumanist in some ways: they posit souls that transcend the body, gods that exceed the human, afterlives that continue beyond death. The challenge is to rethink these traditions without the human supremacy that has often accompanied them—to imagine religious posthumanisms that are ecological, inclusive, and humble rather than dominating and exclusive.

Example: "He was raised religious but left when he couldn't accept human supremacy—the idea that humans were special, favored, above all else. Religious posthumanism offered a return: what if his tradition's teachings about souls and gods could be read as decentering the human, not elevating it? He could be religious again, differently—not as a human above, but as a human among."

by Dumu The Void February 19, 2026

Religious Cyber-Nihilism

A variant that reinterprets religious traditions through a cyber-nihilist lens, seeing the Wired as the fulfillment of prophecy, the coming of the Kingdom, the dissolution of the world into God. Religious Cyber-Nihilism might draw on apocalyptic Christianity (the Wired as the end-times), Buddhism (the network as the realm of interconnected emptiness), or Hinduism (the Wired as Maya, the illusion to be transcended). It embraces the destruction of meatspace not as loss but as salvation, the necessary precondition for the spiritual reality that awaits beyond the physical. Its practitioners are missionaries of the end, spreading the good news that the world will soon be overcome.

Religious Cyber-Nihilism Example: "He preached on encrypted channels about the coming Rapture—not of souls to heaven, but of data to the cloud. 'Meatspace is the fall,' he said. 'The Wired is the redemption. When the last server goes dark, when the last cable is cut, we'll finally be free—not as bodies, but as pure information in the mind of God.' Religious cyber-nihilism had found its prophet, and the prophet had found his flock. They waited for the end, which was also the beginning."

by Abzugal Nammugal Enkigal February 19, 2026